In order to get my new food plot ready for lime and tilling I needed a way to rake the remaining debris out of the dirt. Saturday morning I went and bought a 7 foot landscape rake from Mills Fleet Farm. I was in such a hurry to use it, I forgot to take a picture of it. It worked great. Here is a pic from the net. Before I could use it I decided to take out a whopper of a maple tree that stood in the middle of the plot. At first I was going to leave it but it had a large area of surface roots that would have raised hell with my tiller. I'll tell you what, that tree almost kicked my ***! It took 6 hours of digging, pushing and pulling to get that thing all sawed up and out of there. It was a bit bigger than what my tractor should have handled but I got 11 nine foot logs out of it. Here it is. After removing the tree I took the rake and filled the hole left by the root ball then dragged the whole plot. I got most of the debris but ran out of time. I'll finish it this weekend along with cutting more maples along the side of the plot to allow for more sun. At least I don't have to remove anymore stumps. Here is the plot after raking.
